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Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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317 points diwank | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 14:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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gregoriol ◴[16 Oct 24 15:42 UTC] No.41860397[source]▶
What is going on with Apple's ratio on the iPads: all the original models had 4/3, then iPad Air 4 and iPad 10 got ~4.3/3, then iPad mini 6 got ~4.5/3

What could be Apple's rationale on this? why so many slightly different formats? and why those, they add black bars or crop to most normal content... pictures from the camera for example are still in 4/3 so they are cropped in Photos, videos are in 16/9 so they still have black bars, ...

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freedomben ◴[16 Oct 24 16:13 UTC] No.41860841[source]▶
This is especially amusing to me because back in the day when iOS developers would shit on Android, they almost all said (verbatim) "fragmentation" as the reason why iOS was great and Android sucked. "On Android you have a bunch of different screen sizes to deal with so it's hard to make a nice app. On iOS it's all standardized and simple. That is the Apple Way and the whole ecosystem is consistent like that which makes it a joy to develop for and use."
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1. fennecbutt ◴[21 Oct 24 22:10 UTC] No.41909068[source]▶
In a way having to dev for fragmented is annoying but valuable, as once you've done it it should handle everything. I imagine so many iOS apps are like a glass animal; fragile beasts.